Sorcerian

Sorcerian is an old DOS fantasy JRPG rpg game developed by Nihon Falcom in 1990 from an original idea by Tetsuya Igarashi - Kazunari Tomi - Tomoh Yamane.
Sorcerian can be enjoyed in single player mode from a side view perspective.
It's available for download.

Additional info

A number of add-ons containing new scenarios were developed for the PC versions of Sorcerian, by both Falcom themselves and by other companies.

players: single player

input: keyboard, joystick

graphics: EGA

sound: Adlib, Sound Blaster, Roland, PC speaker

Abandonware DOS popularity: low

Comments

#1 - 13.05.2017 11:46 LordBucket

This is a really weird game with some interesting character and equipment mechanics...but ultimately it's a mediocre puzzle platformer. At first you make characters, you choose race/class and age and spend points and it looks like an adventure RPG. Then there's this fascnating magic system where you enchant items by applying various planetary influences and have to learn how to create magic items of various type via very specific combinations of influences. It's very well done. But then you get to the "game" part of the game and again...it's just a mediocre puzzle platformer. I don't want to undersell it, it does have some interest stuff...but Sorcerian simply lacks staying power. You'll spend hours trying to figure out the magic system, but then quickly realize that it doesn't matter because there are only about half a dozen enchantments that matter, and once you have those nothing else matters, and leveling up is simply a matter of finding the right spot and putting a key on your keyboard to kill infinite monster spawns.

#2 - 14.05.2017 09:11 AbandonwareDOS

Thanks for the review Lord Bucket!

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